North Bingham County District Library STEM Kits: 2016

Friday, July 22, 2016

STEM Kit #30 Snap Circuits

Elanco's site describes their snap circuits, "Elenco®s new Snap Circuits® makes learning electronics easy and fun! Just follow the colorful pictures in our manual and build exciting projects, such as FM radios, digital voice recorders, AM radios, burglar alarms, doorbells, and much more! You can even play electronic games with your friends. All parts are mounted on plastic modules and snap together with ease. Enjoy hours of educational fun while learning about electronics. No tools required. Uses AA batteries."

Come check them out!!!

Monday, May 2, 2016

Stem Kit #29 LittleBits Space Kit

Use everyday household items with the littlebits to create Littlebit projects like this from the kit:

other Littlebit projects can be found here.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

STEM Kit #28 Quirkbot

This fun kit allows you to tinker with straws and create moving robotic creatures. You can go here for beginning tutorials.

The kit includes the following:

Quirkbot Fun

Quirkbot Troubleshooting/Quirkbot Recovery Mode

STEM Kit #27 Accuquilt

STEM Kit #27 Accuquilt

You can come check out our portable accuquilt cutter. We have some templates too!

Monday, April 18, 2016

STEM KIT #26 Potato Chip Science

For more printables and information go HERE

STEM KIT #25 Energy Efficiency Kit

STEM KIT #25 Energy Efficiency (Kill A Watt) Kit

"Simply plug an appliance into the Kill A Watt meter and it will assess the efficiency for you. The Large LCD will display the power consumption by the kilowatt-hour (KWH), which is the billing unit your local utility uses. By monitoring your KWH usage for a particular appliance and multiplying it by your utility's rate, you can determine your electric expense by the day, week, month, or year.

More information on using the Kill A Watt found HERE

Example of a Science Project using the Kill A Watt HERE

Stem Kit #24 Cheese Making Kit

The science behind cheese!

Milk is a type of mixture called a colloid. A colloid has multiple ingredients that are permanently suspended in the mixture. Unlike water and dirt, they won’t settle out. If you add an acid to a colloid, the ingredients will separate. When you make cheese, you separate the colloid and collect all leftover materials (whey).

For some more information on colloids, you can visit HERE and HERE

Websites to get different cheese enzymes and supplies HERE. Rennet can be found at your local grocery store!!

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

STEM Kit #21-23 3D Pens

STEM Kit #21-23

These kits all contain 3d pens though different styles and manufacturers. 3D pens are a handheld 3d printer do NOT touch the end because it is hot and 3D pens should be used 12 and older and with adult supervision.

The following is a video on how 3d Pens are helping in the medical field.

The following is a tutorial video on how to draw with 3d pens

STEM KIT #20 MuddWatt

A Living Battery From Mud!!!

Educational resources and How to Videos found HERE

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Stem Kit #17 Dragster Kit

Other fun potential energy experiments you can build at home?

Cup Racers

Spool Car

Stem Kit #16 Potato Clock

This kit is a fun one to explore electrochemical cells and electricity. Make a clock out of a spud, lemon, or other fruits and vegetables. Or explore liquids such as soda, juice, milk, and water.

Here is a link for light bulb powered by a potato. Are there other things you can run off of potatoes?

Stem Kit #15 Jamstick The Smart Guitar

This kit allows you to learn the guitar on your own with great lessons on apps. IOS devices and some android devices.

http://jamstik.com/

Do you want to see how it works? Watch the videos HERE

Monday, April 4, 2016

Stem Kit #11 Mcookie

"Small, stackable, economic and open source! mCookie-CoreUSB is a 8-bit microcontroller development core board with ATMEGA32U4 series as the core. You can use it make lots of interesting and interactive works."

For Setup help for Windows look HERE
For Setup help for Mac look HERE

Or Look HERE for getting started and projects you can use mcookie for.

Stem Kit #10 Makey Makey Kit

This kit allows you to turn many things into a keyboard. The makeymakey's website has many ideas to help you understand and get your creative juices flowing!!! Check it out HERE

Stem Kit # 9 Circuit Blocks

This kit is for you to experiment with circuits and discover what the other components do. Do circuits need to be "wired" in a certain way? Why are there two colors of wires? This is for you to experiment and discover how to light your bulb. The following websites might be fun to look at after you have experimented with the blocks.

http://www.cippgh.org/circuit-blocks/

http://www.dkfindout.com/us/science/electricity/circuits/

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfe.lp_electric/electric-circuits/

STEM KIT #8 Silk Screen Printing

Follow this link for a step by step tutorial on Screen Printing

STEM KIT #7 Raspberry Pi Kit and Python Coding

This kit has some books that explaining coding and it also includes a raspberry pi if you want to try out learning how to code at home without using the family's computer. The following websites are also other sources to practice your coding skills.